A network engineer issues a show running-config command and sees only one line of output that mentions the enable secret command, as follows:
enable secret 5 $1$ZGMA$e8cmvkz4UjiJhVp7.maLE1
Which of the following is true about users of this router?
- A user must type $1$ZGMA$e8cmvkz4UjiJhVp7.maLE1 to reach enable mode.
- The router will hash the clear-text password that the user types to compare to the hashed password.
- A no service password-encryption configuration command would decrypt this password.
- The router will decrypt the password in the configuration to compare to the clear-text password typed by the user.
Explanation: The enable secret command stores an MD5 hash of the password. It is unaffected by the service password-encryption command. The router does not unhash the value back to the clear-text password. Instead, when the user types her clear-text password, the router also hashes that password and compares that hashed value with the hashed value as listed in the configuration.
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